[ic] Website down

[Jon Jensen]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2023, DB via interchange-users wrote:

>> On this note, I have to say I'm considering shutting down the 
>> Interchange mailing lists entirely.
>> 
>> It has become really difficult to run a public mail server due to the 
>> heavy amounts of spam, lots of list subscribers abandoning their free 
>> email accounts that fill up and reject all messages or else clicking 
>> "spam" instead of unsubscribing themselves, and this adds to existing 
>> deliverability problems to the big email providers most people use: 
>> Yahoo, Google, Apple, Microsoft.
>> 
>> The server's Postfix mail queue is always clogged with 50k+ deferred 
>> messages because of receiving servers saying "temporarily deferred due 
>> to unexpected volume or user complaints" etc. Sometimes we have to just 
>> purge them all to start over.
>
> I agree that running an in-house email/list server is a big pain, but I 
> do like the non-real-time nature of email. IRC is fine but messages 
> scroll away pretty quickly. How about something like Google Groups?

I've never been a big fan of Google Groups, but it's certainly an option.

However, like you, I much prefer this mailing list to IRC, and since 
people piped up and are still here, it seems worth keeping.

I was able to block a few countries full of bad actors and no Interchange 
users I'm aware of, and the subscription-bombing stopped completely and 
the mail queues are no longer clogged with junk.

So, for now we can just keep the lists active, no need to shut them down.

Jon


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Jon Jensen
End Point Corporation
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